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Computeractive Magazine ^ | 1/13/2021 | Oshkalaboomboom

Posted on 01/13/2021 3:47:53 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

This magazine doesn't have a place to read articles online but I can summarize it for you. Google tools you can ditch:

Ditch Google Search for DuckDuckGo

Switch from Chrome to Brave

Replace Gmail with Protonmail

Stop using Google Photos

Replace Google Maps with Open Street Maps

Stop using Youtube or, at the very least, sign out of Google before you use it.

Stop using Google Drive and Docs

Stop using Google Calendar

Download and delete your Google Data



TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boycottgoogle; google; searchengine; stop
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To: Durus

Check out Libre Office.
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Open-source shovel-ware descendent of open-office. Won’t use it. Hated it so much, I always used CrossOver Office in the past to run real Microsoft products on Linux distros.


41 posted on 01/13/2021 7:35:32 AM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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To: BiglyCommentary

mr mm is already checking it out.


42 posted on 01/13/2021 8:07:17 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: Starcitizen

I’ve never had issue with it, but opinions vary.


43 posted on 01/13/2021 8:07:24 AM PST by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Starcitizen

I’ve helped with development for the open source operating systems, one Linux distribution and NetBSD, and I’m an American of European descent. The other developers and systems people are of various nationalities, and politics are not discussed. Technology is the focus.

Over the years, I’ve been more personally acquainted with only a very few of the open source developers and users for testing. Several were conservative, and several were liberals (i.e., conservative and liberal in the U.S. senses of those labels).

Many of the developers of smaller proprietary, closed source apps written in higher level languages (easier to write) have been leftists (my experiences in commercial offices with web script kiddies, JAVA developers and the like), but most of them were young.


44 posted on 01/13/2021 11:43:49 PM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

Once again, as long as there are no decent production quality applications, under Linux, it’s all fairly worthless for me.

Every open-source equivalent I’ve tried are poorly written, poorly or not compatible, with terrible UX/UI. I shouldn’t have to work 10x as hard to produce usable output in the games industry.

That’s why the only open-source games available in Linux are pretty much pure shovel-ware.


45 posted on 01/14/2021 1:51:09 AM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

After reading your post I did a little search on duckduckgo.com

Found this 3 year old article and with an audio of an interview with Google leadership. It was clear that even then the Communist were totally in charge then.

How To Keep Your Online Browsing Unfiltered By Political Propaganda (June 14, 2017)

https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/14/keep-online-browsing-unfiltered-political-propaganda/
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FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3926135/posts

(The interview has much more than how to tighten your browser)


46 posted on 01/17/2021 5:15:49 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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